005 ✽ We be all night

[giglio_madonna]

Who: The willing from Pride and Virgo
What: Want to know what party sucked? The solstice party. Want to know what party won't suck? Luci and Luce's.
When: Jan 8th
Where: The basement of the club Blue Heist
Warnings: None planned besides possible/probably intoxication




A little while after the disaster at Naomi's, those who had attended might find themselves approached- by Luce on Virgo's side, by Luci on Pride's, or perhaps by someone who had heard about it from either of them. The subject of conversation?

Another party. One that involves another mingle of both labels, without being used for any ulterior motives.

Those who seem up to it are given a time and place. Blue Heist is one of the clubs around town that has what could be called a "basement level", for private renting and parties available to anyone who has the cash to spend on it. It's a pretty simple set up, nothing extravagant like the party at Naomi's... Which is absolutely on purpose, let no one tell you otherwise. There's a reason any mics or karaoke equipment has been pointedly removed. All the music is on the system already.

Nope, tonight it's just dancing and drinking, with a couple of rooms to the side that have cheesy movies playing in case you're tired out. No closed doors, no poison at the bar, no murder.

And if you want to take a moment to maybe have a talk to someone on the opposite label to discuss or apologize for the events of the prior night... That's fine too.

Just be careful. Both labels are still under watch, it seems, with a few bodyguards from both sides around the perimeter here and there.

Comments

[maipokerface]

"Other than getting the wind pretty thoroughly knocked out of me and more than a few bruises, not really. I got pushed off the balcony into the ocean and then had to fence with a chair, if you can believe that."

She says it all like she was talking about some horribly tedious project. It's better in her mind to talk about it like that, offhanded and carelessly like it doesn't matter much.

[faithfulflame]

"I...can? I imagine you'd be pretty good at fencing."

Rei's voice has a nervous tick but picks up steam a little after a moment, since Mai clearly isn't that bothered by her presence in particular.

"It wasn't one of my band, was it?"

[maipokerface]

She seems entertained by that. "You think? I had to improvise but at least I didn't get a face full of that chair."

Then the violinist shakes her head. "It was my ice queen rival, Meril."

[faithfulflame]

"Ah...I had...thought she was going to do something."

To someone, not specifically you, but still...

"She was acting odd."

[maipokerface]

Mai's brows rise up at that. "Was she. I didn't see her before walking back in. How odd was she acting exactly?"

[faithfulflame]

"She seemed...angry? I don't know. She kept talking about how Pride had destroyed her band. But that didn't make any sense. At all."

[maipokerface]

"Sounds about right then. That was what she was ranting and raving about to me too."

[faithfulflame]

"You know it wasn't her fault, right? Meril's actually pretty sweet." In an icy way. "Naomi just...did something to her."

[maipokerface]

Mai gives Rei a sideways glance, perhaps a little harshly at first. And then she drops a nice, long sigh as her voice takes on a bit of a grumpy tone.

"I don't know how I believe anything anymore." These dreams that keep cropping up are the biggest part of her indecision frankly. Why the hell would she be constructing whole people just to populate her dreams? And why would they feel so comfortable and right when the rest of her life had always been a shamble of discomfort in her own skin.

"She sure didn't seem like she wanted to bash my brains in the first time we met but hey, you never know with people, right? Attitudes can really turn on a dime."

And even as she says that, she doesn't sound convinced. She doesn't know Meril well but this isn't right somehow.

[faithfulflame]

"Honestly," Rei sighs heavily, sinking forward and propping her head in her hands. "I don't know either. Things have been really, truly, uncomfortably weird since October. Strange things just keep happening."

She doesn't want to elaborate on her visions, or the powers she's discovered, not with someone she doesn't know terribly well...but she feels like she should offer something. Just because Meril is a good person.

"Meril doesn't. I promise. It's not her nature to attack people, she's far to patient for that."

[maipokerface]

Mai seems to turn it over in her mind a moment, then gives a shoulder an easy sort of shrug as she takes a sip of her drink.

"If you're going to vouch for her then, I get to hit you with a chair the next time she chucks one at me."

It's said in jest but it's pretty deadpan all the same.

[faithfulflame]

"That's fine. If I'm wrong and endangering a friend I deserve it. Just...not my face. My boyfriend would object."

At least they're in good humor. Right?

[maipokerface]

She waves a hand dismissively. "If he's any kind of boyfriend, he'll like you even if you have a bag over your head."

[faithfulflame]

"He's not so shallow, but it'd make him unhappy seeing me all blotchy."

And he's a weirdo. With everything going on...he might get paranoid.

[maipokerface]

Her brows raise up a little there. It's not surprise, it's more... nostalgic somehow.

"You mean worried?"

[faithfulflame]

"Yeah. He's in Pride. So...he'd worry about me getting beaten up for...you know..."

Being with him?

[maipokerface]

"Pride, huh. Who are you dating exactly?"

She's flipping through the various men in Pride. Not that she knows any of them well beyond Artolo and Tooru. And god help the woman if she's dating one of those assholes.

[faithfulflame]

"Yosuke."

You know, from the pop band...

[maipokerface]

"The guy from Flashstep?"

She rolls that around in her mind. They had only talked very, very briefly at that ill-fated party. He didn't seem like a bad guy though.

"So you like him pretty well?"

[faithfulflame]

"That's right."

She nods, letting that sink in. He was a bit of a dork at times, but she liked him. Well, more than liked.

"And yeah. More than pretty well. We've been seeing one another for a few months now, in secret. But I figure that the labels have to be aware, and haven't stepped in yet, so...it must be alright."

[maipokerface]

"Ah, a secret affair. Sounds like a Romeo and Juliet setup to me."

[faithfulflame]

"I'm not sure it'll go far enough to reach secret weddings and death. We've just been having a nice time together, especially with these holidays."

[maipokerface]

"That's good enough too then. If you have a good time with him and like him, that's all that really matters in the end. The label bullshit can screw off."

[faithfulflame]

"Oh definitely," Rei nods cheerily. "I'm glad to hear you say that. I was admittedly a little worried about, well...how everything would go over after that party. But...it seems like nobody is going to give us a hard time."

[maipokerface]

"Anyone with brains wouldn't. If they do you know they're idiots you don't want to deal with."

Mai has a very cut and dry estimation of intelligence.